Fundamental neuroscience

Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd Edition introduces graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to the full range of contemporary neuroscience. Addressing instructor and student feedback on the previous edition, all of the chapters are rewritten to make this book more concise and student-friendly than ever before. Each chapter is once again heavily illustrated and provides clinical boxes describing experiments, disorders, and methodological approaches and concepts.

Since the establishment of the conductive properties of intrinsic conductive polymers, a huge variety of basic and applied research has been carried out, involving different polymers, copolymers, blends, mixtures and composites. Thus, fundamental understanding of physical and chemical properties of these materials has been sought, while the applied aspects have advanced very rapidly, crossing the boundaries between disciplines. Today, the applications of conducting polymers in various fields such as neuroscience, nanotechnology and green chemistry, are easily found.

We are at the cusp of a revolution in both technology and clinical practice that holds promise to have
more of an impact on human health, disease, and quality of life than any other development in history.
Applying and advancing upon a foundation of fundamental neuroscience, clinical observation and
experimentation, multidisciplinary engineering technologies, and innovations in surgical technique, we
are now in an era where it is conceivable to expect that the blind will see and the paralyzed will walk.

This book is about how to construct and use computational models of specific
parts of the nervous system, such as a neuron, a part of a neuron or a
network of neurons. It is designed to be read by people from a wide range of
backgrounds from the biological, physical and computational sciences. The
word ‘model’ can mean different things in different disciplines, and even researchers
in the same field may disagree on the nuances of its meaning.

Remarkable advances in medical diagnostic imaging have been made during the past
few decades. The development of new imaging techniques and continuous
improvements in the display of digital images have opened new horizons in the study
of brain anatomy and pathology. The field of brain imaging has now become a fast-
moving, demanding, and exciting multidisciplinary activity. I hope that this textbook
will be useful to students and clinicians in the field of neuroscience, in understanding
the fundamentals of advances in brain imaging.

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The goals of experimental neuroscience research are fundamentally to gain mechanistic
understanding of the pathology of disease in order to identify appropriate
targets for potential pharmacological intervention and evaluation of putative therapies.
With the advances in gene manipulation and transgene technologies, we have
unprecedented ability to generate animal models of disease that more closely mimic
the clinical conditions.
Noninvasive techniques capable of investigating altered pathophysiologies are
now of paramount importance.